(Newser)
–
You don't normally think of Long Island as a hotbed of Confederate sympathizers, but a Catholic high school there is expelling four students over two racially charged incidents, one involving the Confederate flag. On April 9, two male St. Anthony's High School students brought the flag to a handball game. Both teams were from St. Anthony's, but one was mostly white, and the other mostly black, according to WABC. The flag was quickly confiscated and the boys suspended. "Everybody was kind of like, 'Are you serious, did this actually just happen?'" one senior says.

With tensions running high, Brother Gary Cregan, the principal of the South Huntington school, asked students not to make things worse on social media, the New York Daily News reports. But soon thereafter one girl posted a picture of herself in blackface, and another posted a racially inflammatory comment. They too were initially suspended, but now Cregan has ousted them all permanently. "It's that serious and it's that obnoxious," he says. But at least some parents see it as a free speech violation—even though, as CBS NY points out, private schools aren't bound by the First Amendment.

It's a private school. They can expel anyone if they like. End of story.

Declaration1776

Apr 18, 2014 11:27 PM CDT

Such monumental hypocrisy. Just recently some CA high school students were banned from wearing shirts with the U.S. flag because it "might offend" Hispanic students celebrating Cinco de Mayo and waving Mexican flags. Blacks students have often been permitted to display Black Power symbols. Liberal "educators" apparently think only white students should be denied the equivalent freedom of the 1st Amendment.

TwoSheds

Apr 18, 2014 9:24 PM CDT

Those Irish stirring up trouble again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Draft_Riots